My first impression of the Newton Wellesley Hospital Outpatient Surgery Center is that I entered…read more"nirvana (this was before I received any sedatives/anesthesia)."
I got the impression that this place would be different, when I was greeted by two kind staff members in the lobby, one, who escorted me upstairs to the Outpatient Surgery Center.
It seems that 80% of a patients "contact time," while a patient at the Outpatient Surgery Center, is with the Center's Registered Nurses, and they - - collectively - - are a group of (especially) kind, comforting, professional, and efficient healthcare providers. There is no edge, or anything edgy about the Newton Wellesley Hospital Outpatient Surgery Center, is is a place that seems to be stuck in a "state of calm;" there's no pandemonium, noise, rushing, waiting, or drama, just kindness, caring, efficiency, and healing.
My surgeon, hand surgeon, Matthew Leibman, MD is a Rock Star, a professional, genius, skilled, caring clinician.....unpretentious, despite all of the important people that he cares for. Dr. Leibman's Physician Assistant, Ashley Piemonte, is equally caring, professional, and skilled, and misses not one detail - - she makes certain that your continuity of care is continuous.
I'm biased towards Massachusetts General Hospital, which I believe is the greatest hospital in the world; the Newton Wellesley Hospital Outpatient Surgery Center doesn't have the academic, tertiary, big city edge of MGH, but there are times, like today, for me, that I didn't need that.